In this video I'm going to show you a new t-shirt design technique and that is the
crossing items technique. I'm going to show you how to make one with these arrows right here
in Canva. I'm also going to show you 12 other items that you can use to cross.
I'm going to show you all of this in this video so you don't want to miss this. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and in this video I wanted to share with you another t-shirt
design technique and I'm calling it crossing items technique. This is where you get two
items and you cross them together and put it on a t-shirt. It's very popular with arrows if you
look online you can see all these designs that are designed with crossing arrows but it's not
limited to arrows. So after I teach you how to do this design in Canva I'm also going to show you
at least 12 different items that you can cross and show you how to find even more than that on
Canva. Some of them are already done and crossed for you where you don't have to cross them but
if they're not you can cross them on canva very easily so i'm going to show you how to make this
arrow t-shirt first and then stay tuned to the end so that you can see all the different items
that you could be using instead of arrows to make your own designs so let's get into canva right now
and let's start doing this technique so here i am on canva i've already made the artboard and
this is the design i'm gonna try and teach you how to do i'm gonna add a new page here and we're just
gonna do it right here so the first thing i did was i did arrows so you can do crossing arrows
and canva has a bunch of them for you just do graphics here now i could filter this by
free if you only have free you can use this one but i think i use something else let me see if
i can find it here you can see there's tons of arrows that you can use uh some of them already
have letters in it so i can't remember which one i picked so i'm just gonna pick a random
one right here there just black one so whatever arrows you find you can do that and then you're
gonna do text right so just hit t for text and then you can do uh i think i wrote get out there
or something like that and then now i i didn't look if this is something that's trending when
you do your designs you're going to have to look for something that's people actually
want to buy i'm just showing you how to design it right so come in here and you can do that
and make it bigger see very easy and then just copy this hold down option and drag so you make a
copy and you can do the opposite on this one right here so at least 72 i'm going to do negative 72
like that and that way it kind of looks like it's you know the same thing and then you
can put different text in here as well so do t i'm gonna do t right here and then this to uh
what did i say um i think i wrote wild and free right so let's do wild
free super easy right and then look for different things to put
in here you don't have to put the same things i do but i think i did a bonfire
right and then i'm just keeping it black so you can do whatever one you want and i think i did
sun so you could put a boot you could put mountains you could put whatever you want
let's just do a different sun here i don't think this is the one i use but we can color it right
um just black boom see how easy that is throw in different graphics here you could even throw a
banner here or whatever it's really simple i think the the tough part about it is just finding uh the
arrows that cross and that really isn't that tough right because we have it here on canva already so
have fun with this you can see i i changed it up a little bit these are the different arrows
and i added more text so really simple to do on canva you can do these i would do the research
first make sure you get the right things that people are looking for the right kinds of words
the correct kinds of phrases out there i didn't do any research here but you can see this layout
is really easy to do and you can reverse it right so i started off with white and then i reversed it
on black and if you have canva pro you can easily knock this out put it on a t-shirt and the way you
go so i promised you even more designs here so let me show you some other things that you can cross
on here so i just put text this is very light of course you can put other things here
but use different fonts you don't have to copy my fonts that i'm using and my stuff use different
fonts so here's swords crossing right and use like a tough text here a slab serif you can do that
how about here baseball bats crossing right you get the idea and you can use kind of like
athletic design athletic uh font designs here you can see kind of a slab surf as well and you can
put different objects that relate to baseball in here maybe a glove maybe a home plate or something
like that maybe baseball baseball players right so think of different graphics that you want to put
in here fishing poles we're looking for anything that's actually tall and long that can cross right
so fishing poles are great this one is already made in canva for you so you can do things like
this where it's straight text you don't always have to round the text on each side change it up
put straight on the top and round it on the bottom here are guns right rifles they're
tall and long this is already in canva like this right and then you can put things in
banners or in rounded rectangles right and then i use this text because it matches more kind of
a military style right so make sure to pick fonts that match the graphics that you're going to use
all right let's see the next one surfboards right so this is more of a fun kind of text that you
can use for surfboards hawaii island life that kind of stuff right surfboards are tall and long
bones bones would work you could use this for halloween put skulls in here
use kind of a halloween font right again tall and long this one's already made in canva for
you and that is utensil so it could be a spoon and a fork a fork and a knife whatever it is
two spoons two forks right you get the idea two knives even and then i just use a rounded text
to match the rounded graphics right here how about weights you can use weights do some gym t-shirts
right and do some things that match this use a font this font right here kind of matches that so
whatever the text is in here do your research and put it in here and of course you could put
other things on the side as well you could be this could be a gym logo and it could say established
in 1979 or whatever it is right so it could be a cool gym logo how about here guitars are
tall and long so you could do guitars and then the layout in the background could be your text
there's so many different ways that you can lay these things out right
you could put it in a circle and still have a cross so this is a tool so it could be a
hammer and a wrench or a hammer and a screwdriver whatever it is this is already in canva like this
the these two tools right and then put your design inside of a circle this will make a good sticker
a good logo let's see lastly we have a pencil and a ruler so for back to school you can do
this and then do you know two different fonts you could have a cursive font on top of a sans serif
now i promised you also how to find even more and it's really easy with canva because they have so
many graphics i'm just going to type in crossing and then hit that enter now of course you're going
to get the x crossing but watch when you scroll down here how many things we got crossing swords
we got crossing flags crossing guns i showed that one already
crossing tools crossing oars right another one that i didn't show crossing bats
swords again tools again hockey sticks two pencils swords again how about tennis rackets let's see
oh ski poles arrows right axes you can see so many different things um drumsticks the list
goes on and on so you can keep scrolling down here and it'll show you even more
golf tees right we didn't talk about that swords so just do this lacrosse again so how many is that
i think i shared with you at least 20 different things tennis rackets these kinds of guns like
the list goes on and on and on so scroll through here have fun with this there's so many different
design ideas right here make sure to find the right phrase that would work with this
for this niche but again tons of items right here cooking sports athletics then this goes on
and on so go and find a good niche and then look for these crossing items and make your t-shirt
look online for different ways to lay it out i showed you so many different ways that you can
lay out your designs with crossing items uh lay out the text make sure you have a tall rectangle
we're trying to fit that shape right but again so many different items here and very easy to do you
saw me do it in a matter of minutes on canva so have fun with this technique the crossing items
technique again lots of different ways to do it so that is it for this video thanks so much
for watching hopefully these gave you lots of different ideas on what you could do on t-shirts
all these different crossing items you probably didn't know there were so many different ones on
there you could literally fill your shop with all of these and come up with different ideas hundreds
of the ideas literally with all these crossing ideas and there's so many different ways to lay
them out so if this video is really helpful for you make sure to give it a thumbs up that
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demand the question of the day for this video is have you used any crossing items before and
which one was your favorite if you didn't leave that in your comments right here thanks again for
watching and if you want to see more design techniques click on these videos right here
and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye